Enzyme Electrochemistry

H. Allen O. Hill

doi:10.1071/CH06120

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Enzyme Electrochemistry

H. Allen O. Hill ^A

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^A Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR, UK. Email: allen.hill@chemistry.oxford.ac.uk

Allen Hill, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, is the author of more than 400 papers and patents. He obtained his Ph.D. from Queen's University, Belfast. After a number of fellowships he was elected to a lectureship in inorganic chemistry in 1965. In 1977 he first achieved the direct electrochemistry of redox proteins and this developed into a new method of using enzyme electrodes. During the 1980s he achieved the first direct electrochemistry of an enzyme. In 2000, he with three colleagues started Oxford Biosensors where he now works as Director of Strategic Technologies. He has been awarded numerous prizes including the Mullard Prize of the Royal Society, of which he is a Fellow, the Robinson Medal of the RSC, and the Breyer Medal of the RACI.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 59(4) 231-232 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH06120
Submitted: 9 April 2006 Accepted: 9 April 2006 Published: 1 May 2006

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^* It is adequate to think of the rate of electron transfer as a function of intervening distance rather than requiring a special electron-transfer path.

^† It is important to realize that the ‘static’ view of enzyme structures available from diffraction studies could be misleading, in that dynamic motion of or within the protein could bring the prosthetic group within striking distance of the electrode surface.

Enzyme Electrochemistry

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